UPDATE What is this?? UPDATE new pic.
09-26-2010, 05:23 AM
#81
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Colorado
Posts: 200
I agree, although I've only seen one in real life, not "many" like Doug.
09-26-2010, 05:33 AM
#82
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 42
Anyone can post anything at Wiki and claim it true - just like a forum. A cougar is a panther in NA - black ones do not and never have existed regardless of how many wish they could. Posting pictures of black deer, or any melanistic animal other then a mountain lion is not proof that a melanistic ml is possible.
Again though, I'd want to see better pictures before deciding what these were. Looking at it it could be a large cat... but the cams aren't always perfectly accurate now are they?
09-26-2010, 06:03 AM
#83
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Northern NY
Posts: 311
The one on the left's backline is consistantly flat. Which means that's its whole back, there would be a little droop where the neck would be located. There isn't. This makes me believes that it is two cat's where the first ones head is on the other side of its body looking back at teh other one. Just my personal opinion
09-26-2010, 11:46 AM
#88
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 21
a few years back, a friend of mine in South Carolina got a weird trail cam pic at night, in a clear area, of a large cat that appeared to be black. it was a clear picture of the animal and while we assumed that it was a panther, we could not beleive it.
then not too long after we learned that there once used to be a good population of them in sc but had gone extinct and recently the sc dnr had released a certain number of the animals to bring them back into the area.
il look for the article
then not too long after we learned that there once used to be a good population of them in sc but had gone extinct and recently the sc dnr had released a certain number of the animals to bring them back into the area.
il look for the article
09-26-2010, 12:14 PM
#89
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,558
To the fella that use wiki to make his case, I hope you understand what wiki is. There is a reason you can't cite wiki and use the information in college term papers.
I also said that jaguars and leopards could and in fact are fact black. Again, you and no one else here has put any scientific evidence that there are black cougars. Reason being is that they don't exist.
Come on guys....do you really think we have caught two black jaguars, that are extremely nocturnal, in broad daylight walking around together, which is another extreme rarity, getting ready to mate in the woods of Mississippi?
09-26-2010, 12:29 PM
#90
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 616
Please do.
To the fella that use wiki to make his case, I hope you understand what wiki is. There is a reason you can't cite wiki and use the information in college term papers.
I also said that jaguars and leopards could and in fact are fact black. Again, you and no one else here has put any scientific evidence that there are black cougars. Reason being is that they don't exist.
Come on guys....do you really think we have caught two black jaguars, that are extremely nocturnal, in broad daylight walking around together, which is another extreme rarity, getting ready to mate in the woods of Mississippi?
To the fella that use wiki to make his case, I hope you understand what wiki is. There is a reason you can't cite wiki and use the information in college term papers.
I also said that jaguars and leopards could and in fact are fact black. Again, you and no one else here has put any scientific evidence that there are black cougars. Reason being is that they don't exist.
Come on guys....do you really think we have caught two black jaguars, that are extremely nocturnal, in broad daylight walking around together, which is another extreme rarity, getting ready to mate in the woods of Mississippi?
http://www.anomalist.com/features/jag.html
Live it up! Doug